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Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration

1987 · 20th century

The Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration was signed in Beijing on 13 April 1987 by Portugal and the People's Republic of China. Following the model of the Hong Kong agreement, it arranged the return of Macau to China on 20 December 1999 as a Special Administrative Region, with its own system guaranteed for fifty years, ending more than four centuries of Portuguese presence.

Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration
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Macau (Portuguese)

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sino-portuguese-joint-declaration
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